In the past week or so Hank, John and Ken have let slip some of the improvements we’re planning for V3. In this milestone blog post (ok, I’m overstating things, but it *is* my first) I want to talk about some of the backend changes we’re instituting in the run-up to V3, and start a […]
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Better pop ups, more learning
Published by March 20th, 2007 in About ChinesePod and Version 3. 15 CommentsLesson Discovering
While we will be publishing a new lesson every day of the week, most people will find studying lessons in this order awkward with the levels and subject matter constantly changing. With more than 500 lessons in the archive, there should be more than enough to keep everyone very busy!
We have tried to support […]
ChinesePod Version 3 takes a slightly different approach to the body of nearly 500 lessons we have been calling the “Lesson Archive.” The word “archive” alone seems to conjure images of a musty old library, a place where only crotchety professors “rummage through the stacks” and where so much human knowledge goes to die. But […]
One of the biggest improvements in the new site is lesson review. In the existing site, the audio file and the lesson discussion are on one page:
and the vocabulary, expansion and exercises are on another.
Quite frankly, this is awkward so we have decided to put everything together.
The primary lesson page (above) will be open […]
In my last post Usability Improvements, I talked about parts of the current version of the site we find awkward. As we looked at various ways we could make small iterations to try to solve this issues, we realized that many of our ideas would be very difficult to implement on the existing architecture. […]
I want to introduce you to the new look ChinesePod (’Version 3′) to be released in the coming weeks. The new design here on the blog today gives you a flavor of that. Meanwhile, here’s a what the new home page will look like.
We approached the design from the belief that form should follow function. […]
Over the next 3 weeks we will have a daily post describing some of the new features and changes coming to the next version 3 of the ChinesePod service. Continuing on from our previous post - Access Improvements - today we discuss some of the new usability improvements.
Inconsistent Translations
As a result of how the […]
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